The Works of Sydney Smith, Volume 1Longman, 1839 |
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Page ix
... never remember to have seen in the days of the poverty and depression of Whiggism . Liberality is now a lucrative business . Whoever has any institution to destroy , may consider himself as a commissioner , and his fortune as made ; and ...
... never remember to have seen in the days of the poverty and depression of Whiggism . Liberality is now a lucrative business . Whoever has any institution to destroy , may consider himself as a commissioner , and his fortune as made ; and ...
Page x
Sydney Smith. utter and never ending astonishment , I , an old Edin- burgh Reviewer , find myself fighting , in the year 1839 , against the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London , for the existence of the National Church ...
Sydney Smith. utter and never ending astonishment , I , an old Edin- burgh Reviewer , find myself fighting , in the year 1839 , against the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London , for the existence of the National Church ...
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... never wanted the corrective of a more generous and exalted feeling . In a subsequent part of his sermon , Dr. Parr atones a little for this over - zealous depreciation of the prin- ciple of universal benevolence ; but he nowhere states ...
... never wanted the corrective of a more generous and exalted feeling . In a subsequent part of his sermon , Dr. Parr atones a little for this over - zealous depreciation of the prin- ciple of universal benevolence ; but he nowhere states ...
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... never simple and natural for a single instant . Every thing smells of the rhetorician . He never appears to forget himself , or to be hurried by his subject into obvious language . Every expression seems to be the result of artifice and ...
... never simple and natural for a single instant . Every thing smells of the rhetorician . He never appears to forget himself , or to be hurried by his subject into obvious language . Every expression seems to be the result of artifice and ...
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... never yet witnessed the pheno- menon of a prancing indenture . It is not our intention to follow Dr. Parr through the copious and varied learning of his notes ; in the perusal of which we have been as much delighted with the richness of ...
... never yet witnessed the pheno- menon of a prancing indenture . It is not our intention to follow Dr. Parr through the copious and varied learning of his notes ; in the perusal of which we have been as much delighted with the richness of ...
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Page 282 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there ; save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the Gospel of the grace of God.
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Page 16 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Page 280 - But Peter and John answered and said unto them; Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.